Where: Jamaica (17.9° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 76.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bowden Formation (Coastal Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Pickerill et al. (1998). Bowden Formation is the uppermost stratigraphic unit of the Lower Coastal Group. The top of the formation is defined by the nonconformably overlying, early Pleistocene Old Pera Beds of the Upper Coastal Group. AGE: Late Pliocene. The unit was formely regarded as Miocene in age, even Oligocene, but foraminiferal and planktic gastropod biostratigraphy points to a late Pliocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, pebbly, shelly/skeletal, conglomeratic gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: University of California Berkley Museum of Paleontology (UCMP).
Primary reference: P. Jung. 1989. Revision of the Strombina-group (Gastropoda; Columbellidae), fossil and living. Schweierische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 111:1-298 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131137: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Distorsio clathrata Lamarck 1816 snail | |
Marsupina bufo Bruguiére 1792 frog shell | |
Monoplex krebsii Mörch 1877 triton shell | |
Strombina (Spiralta) guppyi Woodring 1928 snail
Strombina (Strombina) gradata Guppy 1866 snail |